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Re: Part 1 of patches for making SUN-make work in separate build-dir: texinfo dependencies
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- Subject: Re: Part 1 of patches for making SUN-make work in separate build-dir: texinfo dependencies
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 21 Dec 1998 16:03:45 -0200
- Cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- References: <199812211758.SAA09652@ignucius.axis.se>
On Dec 21, 1998, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> wrote:
> I agree; automake generates somewhat broken (at least
> nonportable) dependencies if they use "../"-relative paths when
> it "knows" that builddir could be != srcdir.
The dependencies it generates are supposed to work on any
POSIX-compliant `make', for builddir != srcdir, and on any make, for
builddir == srcdir.
> But as long as Makefile.in is regenerated by automake as
> invoked with --include-deps, the same broken dependencies will
> be kept, so the patch is needed anyway.
Seems fair enough. But whoever imports a new version of texinfo into
the egcs tree will have to take care of keeping your modifications.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil